Drosophila melanogaster, yeah they are ‘Geneticist’s best friend’. They have indeed been the first model of choice ages ago and still remains as a valuable model to solve the conundrums in developmental biology. The fly people who revolutionized and updated…

I was introduced to the cancer biology a few months ago, as one of the major killer on Earth. Everyone know this and what’s so new in it? That’s how I snapped back. Until recently, when I was inspired by…

It’s fascinating how the body’s own cells are recognised as a threat by our immune system. Extensive research has been done so far on different pathways contributing autoimmunity. Autoimmune diseases are caused due to immune response against self-antigens (body’s own…

The Phage Therapy: A Scope Beyond Antibiotics Down with fever, cough and sore throat? Cursing the infectious bacteria around you? Going to the doctor and getting long list of antibiotics? Well, why not taking the idea of turning the natural…

How many of us thought that an old phrase “my gut feelings are…” would actually turn into a hot topic among researchers today? So who exactly speaks from our gut? We know that our intestine is home for various microorganisms…

“Every single student wants to work on cancer …”, exhales and quickly adds, ”There are already 1000 mutations being found and a 100 genes’ role in cancer is published every single day. Until and unless there is a ground-breaking technology,…

“And then God created man in his own ” Darwinian evolution conceived a remarkable species - Homo sapiens A hundred thousand years ago, Darwinian evolution conceived a remarkable species-one that was destined to change the landscape of this planet- Homo…

Biology is life. Biology is everywhere. This very phrase is true, and finally biology is breaking the walls of laboratories moving onto houses and backyards. There is a sudden rise in the biological social movement by life science freaks who…

“We stand in the presence of riddles, but not without the hope of solving them. And riddles with the hope of solutions- what more can a scientist desire?”-Hans Spemann (Nobel Prize, 1935) TH Morgan in his FLy Lab One of…

When we imagine life as a permutation of four letters that determine the functionality of every single organism on this planet, the idea of free will and choice are brought into question. If the fate of a cell is predetermined…